The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'
The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.